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Vegetarian Cinco de Mayo Dishes!

May 1, 2017 5 Comments

  I eat Mexican food all year long, but as we roll into Cinco de Mayo, it's always fun to try something new. I've pulled together a bunch of ideas for you, ranging from Drinks and Appetizers and Main Dishes, to Brunch Ideas, Sides, Soups, and Desserts. Depending on where you live, some of these dishes might involve ingredients not yet in season, so I've provided you lots of options. Drinks and Appetizers A Beerific Bloody Mary  15 Minute Chile-Con-Queso Dip Jalapeño-Cornbread ...

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Dinner Divas Weekly Meal Plan (with vegetarian versions!): Week 2

April 27, 2017 3 Comments

My Dinner Divas are back again with another meal plan for the week ahead. It's full of ideas for you. As a recap, if you missed our first Menu Plan, I’ve joined up with some of my favorite blogger friends to collaborate on a week’s worth of dinner ideas. Every Friday morning, you’ll now wake to a menu of options for the week ahead, including 5 dinners and 2 extra dishes that can be sides, desserts, or drinks. Full disclosure: The other bloggers post recipes on all kinds of food, not just ...

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Strawberry Blueberry Hibiscus Crumble | #ProgressiveEats

April 24, 2017 13 Comments

Farmhouse style crumble loaded with strawberries and blueberries, with just a hint of hibiscus tea. Topped with an oats crumble.

Last week, I left my heavy coat and boots behind, and aimed my car down the mountain to the town I’d lived in for the past 25 years. It was the first time to be there as a visitor, since we sold our home in March to move full-time to the mountains around Lake Tahoe. It was a quick overnight trip, and I was curious how it would feel to be back as a visitor in a place that part of me still calls home. The weather was glorious, the trees well into leafing, and flowers popping up everywhere with ...

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Smashed Roasted Beets with Goat Cheese Dressing + Menu Ideas for Next Week!

April 20, 2017 2 Comments

What kind of menu planning do you do? Are you the super efficient type who carefully plans the week’s menu over the weekend, creating itemized shopping lists before heading to the market? Do you whip up some condiments like bread crumbs or an aioli sauce, bake some bread, or maybe chop out some of the prep on Sunday afternoon so you can have quick healthy meals during an over-scheduled week? Or are you like me? Standing in front of the refrigerator at 6:30pm, shocked to find it’s actually dinner ...

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Light Asparagus-Gruyere Quiche with Hash-Brown Crust

April 15, 2017 26 Comments

Asparagus and leek quiche made with Gruyere cheese, and a hash brown bottom, is lightened with egg whites and low-fat milk.

Gluten-free asparagus quiche made with leeks, Gruyere cheese, and a hash browns bottom -- lightened with egg whites and low-fat milk. As a Buddhist, Easter may not look like one of my holidays, but you would be wrong. Easter represents hope and new beginnings to me, things we all relate to, and this year, I’m more aware of this than ever. We continue to create a new life for ourselves in the Northern Sierras, and although we’ve been part-year residents for several years, this is ...

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Parmesan Piadine (Italian Flatbreads) | #BreadBakers

April 10, 2017 12 Comments

Easy piadina Italian flatbread with Parmesan cheese.

Classic piadine Italian flatbreads, with a dusting of Parmesan cheese. Instructions provided for making it at high altitudes and at sea level. We’re here now. Living in Tahoe full-time … one of the most beautiful places to live – and, I’ve decided, one of the most insane for weather. While you planted flowers last week, we watched two feet of fresh snow blow through, and we’re expecting more in a couple days. Cah-razy! There’s more nature than people here, with yipping coyotes out back causing ...

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Soda Bread with Raisins and Orange Zest | #BreadBakers

March 13, 2017 18 Comments

Soda bread made with cake flour, whiskey-soaked raisins, buttermilk, and orange zest.

On St. Patrick's Day, I figure we're all Irish.  I must have some Irish in my background. Somewhere on a bright green branch of my family tree of English, Scots, and Scandinavians (the Vikings got around, you know). This month on #BreadBakers, we're celebrating this Irish holiday, and I confess a number of us chose to make a version of soda bread. I'm looking forward to seeing them all. The Irish aren't the first to use baking soda as a bread leavener, but they made it famous with ...

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Calabrese-Style Fried Potatoes with Peppers

November 13, 2016 Leave a Comment

Fried potatoes with medium-spiced peppers and garlic.

  I was living in Stockbridge, Massachusetts the first time I ate a searing hot pepper. It was one of those long, pointy, skinny numbers popular in Asian dishes. Since it arrived on my plate at a neighborhood Thai restaurant, I figured I was supposed to eat it. Who knew? Seconds after chewing it up and swallowing part of it, a volcano erupted in my stomach all the way up to my throat. Water was absolutely useless. A friend sitting across from me had an untouched Piña Colada in front of ...

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Baked Pomme Rösti – and the 2016 Idaho® Potato Commission Harvest Tour

October 16, 2016 6 Comments

Travel is good for the soul. When we travel, we open ourselves to new experiences, to meeting new people, and if we're lucky we learn something new about ourselves. One of my favorite parts of travel, no big surprise here, is the food. It's entwined in its culture, rituals, and stories. Take the potato. The potato is deeply embedded in more countries around the world than any other I can think of. As far as we know, potatoes were first grown in Peru and Bolivia. They traveled from there to ...

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Italian Chickpea Stew with Swiss Chard

September 15, 2016 3 Comments

Italian chickpea stew loaded with poblano and red peppers, stewed tomatoes, and Swiss chard.

After a busy summer, I'm looking forward to autumn - and yes, even winter. Bring it on, cold and blustery weather! I'm ready for rainy days where I have the perfect excuse to stay home with a good book. I want to have nothing more pressing to do than search for seemingly identical pieces to complete a puzzle in front of the fireplace, while snow falls and drifts up to the windows. And eat soup. Bowls of steaming, hearty soup loaded with vegetables and beans, topped with cheese, and finished ...

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Ginger Pear Jam with Cinnamon and Vanilla

September 13, 2016 10 Comments

Did you know that the discovery of gold in the Sierra foothills created the largest migration in US history? More than 300,000 pioneers, full of dreams of hitting it big, headed to California's Gold Country between 1848 and 1855, and changed life here forever. San Francisco exploded from a population of 200 in 1846 to 36,000 in 1852! Agriculture and ranching expanded throughout the state to meet the needs of the new settlers. An early crop brought by prospectors traveling from the ...

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Spiced Fig Jam

September 4, 2016 14 Comments

Fig jam spiced with cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. Perfect for fall.

Fall is in the air here in the Sierras. There's a new chill that wasn't there a couple of weeks ago, felt even while the sun warms my face. With the turn of a calendar page, nights are suddenly plummeting into the 30's, and some days barely rise into the 60's. On hikes through the woods, I smell tangy pine, dried sage, and autumn leaves, and hear the soft rustle of tall grasses. Pine cones are stripped clean by squirrels and chipmunks starting to hoard their winter stash. How ...

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